Christian Rafael Peregrina

دیگران را ببخش، نه بخاطر اینکه لایق بخشش، به خاطر اینکه تو لایق آرامشی

Tue, 21 May 2013 21:45:56 -0400

Forgive others, not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace.

The Return of Arrested Development

Tue, 21 May 2013 21:44:12 -0400

The Return of Arrested Development

"Glad to get that out of the way. Now I can get back to sweating the small stuff."

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:40:28 -0400

“Glad to get that out of the way. Now I can get back to sweating the small stuff.”

- John Tottenham

"In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling."

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:25:01 -0400

“In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.”

- Gertrude Stein

Stephanie Tillman

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:50:45 -0400

Stephanie Tillman

Stephanie Tillman

Stephanie Tillman

Stephanie Tillman

allthingseurope: Lahti, Finland (by markku mestila)

Sun, 19 May 2013 13:43:22 -0400

allthingseurope:

Lahti, Finland (by markku mestila)

masksarehot: gaobibaituo: awesome-everyday: shorterexcerpts: ...

Fri, 17 May 2013 04:04:26 -0400

masksarehot:

gaobibaituo:

awesome-everyday:

shorterexcerpts:

thecallus:

theatlantic:

The Cheapest Generation: Why Aren’t Millennials Buying Cars or Houses?

What if Millennials’ aversion to car-buying isn’t a temporary side effect of the recession, but part of a permanent generational shift in tastes and spending habits? It’s a question that applies not only to cars, but to several other traditional categories of big spending—most notably, housing. And its answer has large implications for the future shape of the economy—and for the speed of recovery.

Read more. [Image: Kagan McLeod]

It’s safe to say that a decent number of Tumblr users are a part of the Millennial generation. So, tell us: Do you own a car or house? If not, why?

IT’S BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO DISPOSABLE INCOME YOU THUNDERING IDIOTS. Fucking preference has nothing to do with it. 50% of college graduates have no job! They all have the most student loan debt ever! What are you asking this question for?!

Also: housing is a good bit more expensive now.

My parents got a 15-year mortgage on a new house in the mid-70s. The house was $32,000. Average home price in that area now? $190,000.

So, home prices went up. Food prices went up. Health care prices went WAY UP. Rent prices went up. Higher education went up so damn high that some of us forgo that all together. Energy prices went up. Car prices went up.

Prices of prices went up.

We also pay cell phone bills, internet bills, data plans, text plans, online subscriptions, cable/satellite tv, netflix, DVR subscriptions — bills that didn’t even exist 30-40 years ago. We also use computers and smartphones and microwaves and other consumer electronics that didn’t exist 20-50 years ago.

We need medications and doctors and contact lenses and tampons and maxi pads and other things that cost money just to be alive and keep us healthy.

Most of us can’t afford to:

Get married and have a “Traditional” big wedding

Buy a house

Buy a new car

PLAN to have children

Take two, consecutive weeks of vacation.

Jobs that paid 50k in the late 1990s now pay between 30-35. Interest rates that favor consumers have gone down.

So I say, no. We are not choosing not to buy homes. We’re not choosing to take the bus in cities where there’s no good public transit. WE ARE NOT CHOOSING TO LIVE WHAT SOCIETY DEEMS AS AN UNDESIRABLE LIFESTYLE.

Don’t even get me started on the fact that these two people in the picture are young white hipsters. Young black and brown folks have been forgoing homeownership and buying new cars for decades, this shit isn’t new, pal. You’re just acting like this shit is new because it’s hitting white folks.

anyway, my point is: We are fucking broke.

fuck all these articles written by assholes who actually know nothing about our generation

FUCK THEM

FUCK
THEM

I’m either Gen X or Millennial, depending which dates you use, and so I’m old enough to have been living on my own as a lot of this started spinning out of control. It was like watching a trainwreck. The current state of all of this is ridiculous. I was going to go on a long rant about Boomers refusing to age gracefully, the impact of 9/11, the double-edged sword that is globalization, and our current loan culture and confusion of “needs vs. wants” that has been bred into us by clever marketing, but I’m too angry, and it was getting too long.

So I’ll just say this: the system is seriously out of whack, and we’re in this strange place where we’re both trapped in bubbles and depressions at the same.

I keep waiting for market corrections that just don’t seem to be happening.

And also, I’ll just throw up Crack Shack or Vancouver Mansion for reference. And if you visit it, bear in mind that this is in a city where the AVERAGE HOUSEHOLD INCOME is $46K. FORTY-SIX THOUSAND A YEAR. Oh, yeah, the system isn’t broken at all…damn those cheap fucking Millennials & Gen-X-ers!

"How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words."

Fri, 17 May 2013 04:01:29 -0400

“How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.”

- David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King

Ah, I miss my Canon 7D… and Dubai.

Thu, 16 May 2013 22:44:25 -0400

Ah, I miss my Canon 7D… and Dubai.

"We want the spring to come and the winter to pass. We want whoever to call or not call, a letter, a..."

Thu, 16 May 2013 22:18:04 -0400

“We want the spring to come and the winter to pass. We want whoever to call or not call, a letter, a kiss- we want more and more and then more of it. But there are moments, walking, when I catch a glimpse of myself in the window glass, say the window of the corner video store, and I’m gripped by a cherishing so deep for my own blowing hair, chapped face, and unbuttoned coat that I’m speechless: I am living…”

- Marie Howe

I can now say that I’ve seen it all.

Thu, 16 May 2013 12:54:34 -0400

I can now say that I’ve seen it all.

Ryoichi Kurokawa

Sun, 12 May 2013 12:04:53 -0400

Ryoichi Kurokawa

Photo

Sun, 12 May 2013 11:15:26 -0400

"It’s how you show up at the showdown that counts. If you aren’t going all the way, why go at all?"

Thu, 09 May 2013 22:27:05 -0400

“It’s how you show up at the showdown that counts. If you aren’t going all the way, why go at all?”

- (via shehadalwayswantedwords)

pleatedjeans: Depression Part 2 by Hyperbole and a Half is the...

Thu, 09 May 2013 19:34:12 -0400

pleatedjeans:

Depression Part 2 by Hyperbole and a Half is the most important thing you’ll read all day.

Rocket to Ruin

Thu, 09 May 2013 19:06:03 -0400

Rocket to Ruin

It’s that time of year again, I’m all in #futbol

Wed, 08 May 2013 15:23:47 -0400

It’s that time of year again, I’m all in #futbol

This looks like something it absolutely should not look like.

Wed, 08 May 2013 14:47:06 -0400

This looks like something it absolutely should not look like.

Familiar

Wed, 08 May 2013 13:20:35 -0400

Familiar

Photo

Wed, 08 May 2013 13:13:06 -0400